Calvados - enjoying some as I write this

Calvados is an apple brandy from the French region of Basse-Normandy.

Calvados is distilled from specially grown and selected apples, of which there are over 200 named varieties. It is not uncommon for a Calvados producer to use over 100 specific varieties of apple to produce their Calvados. The apples used are either sweet (such as the Rouge Duret variety), tart (such as the Rambault variety), or bitter (such as the Mettais, Saint Martin, Frequin, and Binet Rouge varieties), with the latter category of apple being inedible.
The fruit is picked (usually by hand) and pressed into a juice that is fermented into a dry cider.

It is then distilled into eau die vie (water of life). After two years aging in oak casks, it can be sold as Calvados.

The longer it is ages, the smoother the drink becomes. Usually the maturation goes on for several years. A bottle of twenty-year-old Calvados can easily command double the price of a bottle of ten-year-old Calvados.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

So sorry to see that I've lost one follower. I know it's hard to wait and when you're in limbo waiting for the kitchen of your dreams to be completed, things tend to get very boring. The waiting, the hoping, the dreaming, the building up of recipes to try as soon as the stove is hooked up. I've purchased so many new cooking untensils and equipment and they are all still in their boxes just waiting.

I thought I would educate all of you on Calvados. Aaron just poured me a little and it is so delicious. Apple brandy. And the perfect season to be tasting something apple-flavored. He's sipping some Talisker Scotch tonight. He says it's reminiscent of buring leaves. Oh, I just tried a sip and he's right.

I went to Target today to pick out a birthday card for my Baby Cousin, Jared. I stopped by the candle section and they actually have a candle that smells like a rustic cabin. Amazing. I couldn't believe it. If it wasn't $13, I would have bought it. Come to think of it, I still might!

With all of the natural, rustic looking brick that's going up in our new kitchen, I've decided that the perfect medium of decoration would be colored glass. Brick and glass are almost the same common denominator and they are so pretty together. The brick is red, brown, grey, gold, silver, black, oh, so pretty. The glass I chose is the color of jewel tones, ruby, emerald, sapphire, amethyst and I'm also going to add topaz and smokey quartz. I'm on a colored glass hunt now.